Re: Anyone ever added a turbo to a tractor?

Posted by RusselAZ on March 06, 2004 at 07:41:33 from (67.136.103.242):

In Reply to: Anyone ever added a turbo to a tractor? posted by Hound on March 05, 2004 at 18:24:55:

Just a story but it has some lesson to it.

Back in the mid 60's I had a cousin who had a well to do grandpa. They had a 560 Farmall that my cousin got to call his own. He put a turbo on it. Was really cool sounding to us teenage farm boys. And it would now pull that 16 ft tandem disc at 7 mph instead of 5. You can imagine how far a one-way can throw dirt at that speed. Anyway, the lesson was that just because the engine could build it up, didn't mean the rear end could keep it to the ground. After the third Differential rebuild, the turbo came off.

I love turbos when the whole machine is designed for them. It's kinda like these aftermarket power chips for diesel pickups today. Just what is the rest of the pickup going to do when you throw another 100 ft lbs of torque and 75 more horsepower at it. Tim Allen syndrome, hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo.

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